Help Coming From Dedicated Christians

MOSCOW, February 15 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti . The humanitarian action, during which the cargo was delivered to Syria, collected at the expense of Russian believers, is not part of Russia's policy in this country, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and Protestants said at a press conference in Moscow today.

The interreligious delegation of the Working Group of the Council for Interaction with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation visited Syria and Lebanon from February 3 to 9, where an unprecedented volume of humanitarian aid was delivered, funds for which were collected by Russian believers. A cargo weighing 77 tons was distributed to those in need in Damascus and Aleppo, as well as in a refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley on the Lebanese-Syrian border.

"We are perfectly aware that today Syria is the place where world politics is being decided ... Despite all this, we, as people of faith, are out of politics, we are ready to help everyone who suffers there." Our position does not change: politicians should be politicians We are doing a good thing - a humanitarian mission, "said the commanding bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith (Pentecostal), Sergei Ryakhovsky.

With him, the secretary for inter-Christian relations of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, hieromonk Stephen (Igumnov), who heads the delegation. He noted that in Syria the mission of the Russian clergy was not attempted to be translated into a political dimension.

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